Police stop bikers near JJ Hospital to check if they have a valid reason to travel
MUMBAI: The BMC will add 120 staffers to its Covid-19 war rooms this week to handle the overwhelming surge in daily calls. The BMC receives around 8,000 calls a day on its 1916 helpline and the 24 ward war rooms from Covid patients and their relatives looking for beds, ambulances and RT-PCR tests.
BMC officials said they have begun to deploy more Class III staffers to help patients get beds and ICU beds, contacts of testing laboratories, ambulances and other Covid queries.
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The BMC’s local ward-level war rooms had helped lakhs of Covid patients since they were set up last year. Now as there is a surge in cases, they are overwhelmed with calls and there are several complaints that they do not respond on time. As mayor Kishori Pednekar said, all calls must be attended immediately and patients and kin must be given a response. The ward war room is a most critical mechanism in the Covid b
The shortages-hit Dahisar Covid centre shifts patients on Monday
MUMBAI: With fewer Covid-19 tests conducted over the weekend, Maharashtra and Mumbai reported a dip in daily detections. The state added 58,924 cases and 351 fatalities on Monday, pushing the total caseload to 38.9 lakh and toll to 60,824.
A total of 2.2 lakh tests were conducted on Sunday as against the state’s highest-ever case tally of 68,637 from 2.7 lakh tests done on Saturday (test results take around 24 hours), according to the state government’s daily update. In Mumbai, 7,381 cases were detected from 36,556 tests done on Sunday. On weekdays, the city conducts an average 45,000 tests and for the last week, daily cases have hovered over 8,000-9,000.
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MUMBAI: While over 40,000 Covid diagnostic tests are conducted in Mumbai daily, there are increasing complaints about an almost 48-hour gap between booking an appointment and collection of samples.
A 40-year-old Borivli resident who needed to undergo a Covid-19 test was shocked to hear that his swab sample would be collected after 48 hours. “I called up four laboratories, including the big chains, but they all told me that the state government has asked them not to collect samples for a few days,” he said.
In Mulund, a 28-year-old researcher got a booking for Thursday, when she called up on Monday. “While I managed to book an online appointment with a well-known laboratory chain for Tuesday, my friend told me that the lab’s technicians don’t show up and don’t even communicate about any cancellation,” she said.
Mumbai: Complaints pour in against swab collection delay by labs
TNN / Updated: Apr 14, 2021, 10:41 IST
Mumbai: While over 40,000 Covid diagnostic tests are conducted in
Mumbai daily, there are increasing
complaints about an almost 48-hour gap between booking an appointment and collection of samples.
A 40-year-old Borivli resident who needed to undergo a Covid-19 test was shocked to hear that his swab sample would be collected after 48 hours. “I called up four
laboratories, including the big chains, but they all told me that the state government has asked them not to collect samples for a few days,” he said.
In Mulund, a 28-year-old researcher got a booking for Thursday, when she called up on Monday. “While I managed to book an online appointment with a well-known laboratory chain for Tuesday, my friend told me that the lab’s technicians don’t show up and don’t even communicate about any cancellation,” she said.
The city could see up to 100 deaths a day in the coming weeks, warned Dr Avinash Supe, who heads MMR’s Covid death audit committee
MUMBAI: In just 11 days of April, the city has reported 55% more Covid-19 deaths than in all of March, calling into question earlier assessments that the second wave was less severe. The state, too, has seen fatalities jump by 23% in less than two weeks of April compared to the previous month.
Mumbai reported 215 deaths in March, but has crossed 333 by April 11. In January and February, the city had seen 236 and 127 Covid deaths, respectively. Similarly, Maharashtra has crossed 3,059 deaths in April so far as opposed to 2,495 in March.